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标题：Institutional ethnography: A sociology for librarianship
其他标题：Institutional ethnography: A sociology for librarianship
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作者：Nicole K Dalmer ; Roz Stooke ; Pam McKenzie 等
期刊名称：LLJournal
印刷版ISSN：1930-1693
出版年度：2018
卷号：41
期号：125
页码：45-60
语种：English
出版社：Student of the Ph. D. Program of the Hispanic and Luso-Brazilan Languages and Literatures Cuny - The Graduate Center
摘要：Canadian sociologist Dorothy Smith’s institutional ethnography (IE) is an ontology of the social that conceptualises ‘life as usual’ as the ongoing coordination of people’s actions across diverse sites. Popular in the health sciences and human service professions as a research strategy for understanding and explicating problematics of everyday life, it is slowly gaining traction as a critical research approach for library and information science (LIS). This article introduces IE and provides an overview of its central tenets. It outlines ways in which institutional ethnographers identify research problematics and collect and analyse data. The article concludes with three illustrations of how institutional ethnography has been used to map the linkages among activities and institutional processes, ultimately revealing how it can contribute to a critical understanding of library and information science practices and scholarship.
关键词：institutional ethnography;research methods;qualitative research